@ramez Gulf states have AD guns that are cheap to use against drones. They just don't have the doctrine to use them properly. Which is where Ukraine experts can help.
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Simon Cast
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Simon Cast
@simoncast
Co-founder & CTO @ProdPad; Co-founder, @mindtheproduct. [email protected]
London, Abu Dhabi Katılım Nisan 2008
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We desperately need much lower cost missile interception tech. We should learn from Ukraine and from European startups now delivering lower cost interceptors.
Becca Wasser@becca_wasser
Iran fired 1200+ projectiles at five countries in the first 48 hours. Most were drones. These saturation attacks aim to overwhelm air defenses and drain interceptors. $20-50k Shahed drones vs. $4.19M PAC-3 interceptors put US and its partners on the wrong side of the cost curve.
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@SitDeck I'm not getting the verification email. Email is correct and tried resending and checked spam folder.
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@WarintheFuture @Osinttechnical We had more shockwave shaking of the doors / windows in UAE about 15 mins ago.
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@Osinttechnical 21/ A subsequent wave of Iranian drones and missiles are hitting targets in Israel and in the wider Middle East.
OSINTdefender@sentdefender
Footage showing the impact of an Iranian ballistic missile moment ago on Tel Aviv, Israel.
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With the attacks now occurring in Iran: remember that first reports are almost always wrong in war. And, just because no one is covering something on social media outside urban areas, it doesn't mean nothing is happening out there. Scope of strikes remains unclear.
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@DanielleFong HSI is the part going, which is the investigative arm that focuses on transnational crime.
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can somebody even steelman what the fuck ice is supposed to be doing in Milan?
CBS News@CBSNews
Milan mayor calls ICE "a militia that kills" and says agents not welcome as part of U.S. Olympic security. cbsn.ws/3Z2eZxl
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This is truly beautiful. Ukraine has now fully defeated Russia's Black Sea fleet. They're so scared they're barricading themselves into their ports. Slava Ukraini.
(((Tendar)))@Tendar
Russians sunk several barges at the entrance of their naval port pier in Novorossiysk, so that no other Ukrainian drone can enter it. This also confines the remnants of the Russian Black Sea Fleet to this little basin. Russians literally barricaded themselves. Embarrassing..
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Everyone’s hitting the same wall with #LLMs + #agents.
The fix isn’t prompts.
It’s an #AI OS.
A layer that plans → routes → validates → executes using the right tools, not guesses.
We built ours. Here’s why it matters:
prodpad.com/blog/ai-os-orc… #AIEngineering #prodmgmt
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The last #producttank #abudhabi of the year is tonight starting at 6pm at The Bridge, Al Qana! We will be discussing Building Defensible #AI Products in the Age of Big Models. If you are at @ADFinanceWeek and want to join RSVP here meetup.com/producttank-ab…
#adfw2025 #prodmgmt
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Interesting in Building Defensible AI Products and in town for #ADFW2025? Come join us this Wednesday 10th December at #ProductTank #abudhabi to discuss just this. Register here to attend meetup.com/producttank-ab…
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@producttank #abudhabi is back with another great session. This time it is "Don't build Dumb Agents with RAG" where we will walk through a better approach. RSVP here meetup.com/producttank-ab…
#productmanagement #prodmgmt #ai
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@wolfejosh The models are fine but the UX and non-model features aren’t keeping pace with evolving use of the GenAi. As a product it is brittle with unnecessary memory bloat.
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ChatGPT is NOT MySpace (when it had 10x more users)
And google is NOT Facebook (which got escape velocity )
But extrapolating early success sometimes results in lock-in effects or network effects (memory and pulse aim to habituate users)
But sometimes doesn’t
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1/ Clear directional arrow of progress
My current bet is GOOGLE dominates next wave of AI because of screenshots, agentic computer-use, chrome browser, android, G suite (+ more trust and privacy and security rails)
Google will 'DVR' with permission your screen + search and ACT across chats, imessage, whatsapp, chrome tabs, X, substack, Google searches, docs/sheets/slides, youtube
i dont remember whether a piece of info was in twitter, a susbtack or a Slack post or a text or gmail...Google will
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@mattyglesias Missed an opportunity to include some measures to restore the checks and balances.
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Come join us at the next #ProductTank #AbuDhabi! This time we are looking at how #AI is changing the process of #productmanagement RSVP meetup.com/producttank-ab…
#prodmgmt
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@varunram See Time Team an archaeology based ‘reality’ show that has been ongoing for something like 20-30 years now.
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Growing up, I used to think a lot of history was British-ized for the lack of a better description. Egyptian History, Asian History, pretty much every discovery or expert in history was written by the British.
Now I realize the British are perhaps one of the few ones left who are fascinated with history. All the YouTube videos I see of unknown regions are almost exclusively done by the British. All the excavations and historians that have something interesting to say. Something about the British that attracts them to adventure and history.
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Peaks normally refer to periods of no more than a day, which means you can, by definition, cover them with batteries.
For longer periods, the first solution is wind, which takes away ~80 of what's remaining. And THEN, what remains (usually called a "dunkelflaute"), that last 5-10% (in problematic regions), you solve with "firm" energy. But that's not enough for nuclear to make money. So, what else? My guess at the moment is: gas peakers for 5%, and then iron powder (or iron batteries), or methanol or hydrogen. My 2cts.
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The real challenge for solar + storage is winter, not summer AC peak. Especially in places with short, cloudy winter days (US NE, Japan, Europe). Will increase as we electrify heating. Solar maximalists don't seem to understand this yet. It's one reason we need clean firm.
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@WarintheFuture Isn't this many if not most organisations including Australian institutions? None really have a 'devils advocate' specifically tasked with challenging assumptions or doctrine with authority to force change.
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4/ You can read my assessment of how sub-optimal Iranian learning and adaptation helped pave the way for Israel’s current take down of the Iran’s nuclear program, and possibly the Iranian regime, at this link: mickryan.substack.com/p/what-iran-di…
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In war, stupidity and intellectual laziness gets punished. So, selection and development of good leaders matters. But, also punished is a suboptimal learning and adaption culture. A special assessment of what Iran should have learned from military conflicts in the past year - and didn't. 1/4
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"The negotiators have negotiated a handshake agreement to seek sign-off to agree that a previously agreed agreement is still their agreed-upon agreement" this is like something straight out of Yes, Minister @JustinWolfers
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Want to learn more about how to automate your processes using #AI? Come join @chrizbot and @simplybastow as they discuss at the next @ProdPad webinar prodpad.com/webinars/produ… #prodmgmt #productmanagement
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@secretsqrl123 If you see the clip here news.com.au only one officer turned and pointed directly at the reporter. All police didn't move.
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i saw crap like this in combat all the time..
reporters trying to get a great shot...
they know where to stay but...
this is not the intercetion, just an example.
and the bean bag round (not a rubber bullet) has a horrible aim, and is only effective to about 50 ft.
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@CasualArtyFan It could or it will? Think Germany and the Spanish Civil war before WII.
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Whether it’s Ukrainian journalists, VetTV, or individual accounts… The US Army should be trying to absorb as much knowledge on current conflict across the world.
It could make all the difference in the next war.
WTF Nation Radio@WTFNationRadio
The 3d Separate Assault Brigade (3AB) took shape at the start of Ukraine’s fight, known for their relentless defense during the Mariupol siege. In this short, @Veteran_TV embeds 4km from Russian territory with their night assault platoon, artillery support, and drone teams, capturing the firsthand experience of facing Russian forces head-on. "Embed Actual" is now streaming.
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People don’t really talk enough about the Polish YIMBY success story. For a country to grow so rapidly and see housing costs relative to income go *down* is extremely unusual!
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